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Luther in English: The Influence of His Theology of Law and Gospel on Early English Evangelicals (1525-35)

Michael S. Whiting

Recent studies have increasingly downplayed the influence of Martin Luther’s theology of Law and Gospel on early English evangelicals such as William Tyndale. The impact of a late medieval Augustinian renaissance, Erasmian Humanism, the Reformed tradition, and Lollardy have all but eclipsed the more central role once attributed to Luther. This book argues that scholars have wrongly diminished Luther’s significant influence upon first-generation evangelicals William Tyndale, John Frith, and Robert Barnes during the English Reformation of the 1520s and 1530s.